bushel
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Chicago contracts rose by their daily limit of 45 cents a bushel Wednesday, before rising further Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Corn futures rose above $7 per bushel in early 2022 as commodities traders weighed fertilizer shortages and supply disruptions.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
Wheat prices surged to record highs above $13 per bushel in early 2022.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
Wheat futures rose more than 20% in the first quarter to around $6 a bushel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
“I wasn’t going to say embarrassing,” he says, brushing a hand through his bushel of hair, only to find that it’s no longer there.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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U.S. corn yield forecast, in bushels an acre, for the 2026/27 season, down from the Agriculture Department’s projection in July for 183 bushels an acre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The outlook for U.S. ending stocks was also adjusted for 2026, pegging corn at 1.79 billion bushels, soybeans at 310 million bushels, and wheat at 722 million bushels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
For corn, that is slightly higher than analyst estimates of 15.95 billion bushels, while for soybeans, it is lower than expectations of 4.45 billion bushels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
The Department of Agriculture lowered its 2026 U.S. wheat production outlook to 1.56 billion bushels amid drought conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
You could pick lots of bushels in a day.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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So his third evil is the busheling and harrying of genius….
From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Will Levington Comfort
He did mostly cutting and fitting, but some "busheling."
From The Negro at Work in New York City A Study in Economic Progress by George Edmund Haynes
They got enough to keep 'em busy busheling the jobs them war correspondents turns in on them.
From Worrying Won't Win by Montague Glass